Lisa

“Only time might help, time which surrendered all secrets but only on the inexorable condition, as far as he could tell, that the secret could no longer be used.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“It's very hard to live with that,' said Eric.
'I mean, with the sense that one is never what one seems—never—and yet, what one seems to be is probably, in some sense, almost exactly what one is.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“He wanted to enter into, or to forget, the chaos at his center.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country